A New Experiment Shows Why We Must Rethink Productivity in the ChatGPT Era

Clark Boyd
7 min readMar 6, 2023

When you survive a few waves of tech disruption, you learn a thing or two.

Well, maybe just one thing: the hype rarely translates into real, lasting change.

The problem is not the technology itself — except for crypto, which continues to look like a scam designed by a teenage boy. No, the problem always lies in our ability to change with the technology.

I’ve got the receipts to prove it. The metaverse trends reports, the voice search tattoos, the NFTs of…

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Clark Boyd

Tech/business writer, CEO (Novela), lecturer (Columbia), and data analyst. >500k views on Medium. I used to be with it, but then they changed what ‘it’ was.